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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Health News / Tips & Trends / Celebrity Health » Pregnancy and childbirth
The U.S. abortion rate has declined by more than one-third over the past two decades to a record low, federal officials reported Friday.-
Friday, December 11, 2015 from Top Health News -- ScienceDailyThe drug anastrozole is effective in treating an early form of breast cancer, according to a clinical trial. The results of the trial show that anastrozole is as effective as tamoxifen for this type of breast cancer and could offer a new...
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Saturday, December 12, 2015 from THE MEDICAL NEWSGetting enough sleep is an essential part of any athlete's training programme, but a study in the Journal of Sports Sciences reveals intensive bouts of exercise can make it hard to get 40 winks. Suspecting that intense exercise can lead...
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Saturday, December 12, 2015 from THE MEDICAL NEWSThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Vistogard (uridine triacetate) for the emergency treatment of adults and children who receive an overdose of the cancer treatment fluorouracil or capecitabine, or who develop certain...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Internal Medicine NewsHepatitis C could be reduced by 90% or more in the United States by the year 2040 with the use of direct-acting antivirals, near-universal screening,
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Latest NewsWhen we launched mHealthNews in July 2013, FitBit Flex was just a few weeks old and rumors were swirling that Apple might follow with its own wearable.
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Saturday, December 12, 2015 from MedicineNet Daily NewsTitle: X-Rays May Miss Hip Arthritis, Study Finds Category: Health News Created: 12/10/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 12/11/2015 12:00:00 AM
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Saturday, December 12, 2015 from THE MEDICAL NEWSNationwide Children's Hospital and research advocacy group DownSyndrome Achieves have joined forces to create the first biobank in the country dedicated to collecting and managing blood samples from people with Down syndrome.
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Saturday, December 12, 2015 from THE MEDICAL NEWSInstratek, a privately held medical device company focused on minimally invasive endoscopic surgery and extremity implants, announces record revenue growth for the 10th straight year. The company recorded solid year over year revenue...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Internal Medicine NewsThe Alzheimer’s disease drug memantine may help reduce the frequency of migraines, say the authors of a study showing that memantine prophylaxis sig
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Saturday, December 12, 2015 from THE MEDICAL NEWSAbbott and University of California San Francisco published research identifying a newly discovered human virus, known as human pegivirus 2 (HPgV-2), and proving it is found among some patients with hepatitis C (HCV).
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from MedPage Today.com Latest Headlines(MedPage Today) -- Biomarker study favors surgery over lifestyle intervention
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from MedPage Today.com Latest Headlines(MedPage Today) -- Breast cancer therapy may some day be guided using blood samples
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Top Health News -- ScienceDailyA new way of growing fallopian tube cells in culture is expected to give a boost to our understanding and prevention of female genital diseases, such as infertility, inflammatory disease, and ovarian cancer.
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Saturday, December 12, 2015 from MedicineNet Daily NewsTitle: Maybe You Can Forecast Your Health Better Than a Doctor Category: Health News Created: 12/10/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 12/11/2015 12:00:00 AM
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from MedPage Today.com Latest Headlines(MedPage Today) -- Here's some of what we heard this week, while reporting the latest medical news
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Saturday, December 12, 2015 from THE MEDICAL NEWSSwitzerland has honest students: The vast majority of the students that were questioned were against pharmacological cognitive enhancement. Yet the topic should be addressed more actively by the universities, asks the study that was...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from POPSUGAR FitnessBefore working in health and fitness, I spent a good part of my adult years working around food and alcohol. I was a server all through college. I would later spend a good chunk of my writing career as a food editor. While I (usually)...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Living Well News -- ScienceDailyFor people who already have high blood sugar, preventing diabetes could amount to just another day at the office. Employees enrolled in a workplace intervention program as a group lost more weight, showed greater reductions in fasting...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Medical DailyA man in the UK suffered a heart attack after consuming 2 liters of his favorite energy drink.
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Medical DailyAn Australian woman and her husband, who beat Hodgkin's lymphoma as a teen, used IVF and the man's 23-year-old sperm to conceive a child, setting a Guinness World Record.
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from healthfinder.gov Daily NewsChipotle Executive Apologizes for Food Illness Outbreaks, Promises Improved Safety First Dengue Vaccine Gets Its First Approval, in Mexico /div
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Psych Central
If you are like most parents, at some point you have probably thrown your hands up in the air, tried a “miracle parenting approach,” and perhaps even wondered if your […] -
Friday, December 11, 2015 from Top Health News -- ScienceDailyA research team has established how a virus exploits one of its host's proteins when the virus is about to replicate its genetic material during an infection. The discovery may potentially form the basis for the development of new...
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Saturday, December 12, 2015 from THE MEDICAL NEWSFor the first time, more than 40,000 IBD patients, researchers, and healthcare providers will be brought together by IBD Plexus to create the world's largest registry of IBD patients of all ages which will transform how IBD research is...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from WebMD Health Headlines
Procedure showed promise on tumors under 3/4 of an inch, but more study is needed -
Friday, December 11, 2015 from Top Health News -- ScienceDailyAIDS treatment can help HIV-negative people by quelling fear of the virus and boosting mental health and productivity, a new study demonstrates.
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from POPSUGAR FitnessI lived in the Bahamas until I was 3 years old, then grew up 10 minutes from the beach in sunny South Florida. And while I knew a few boys who were into surfing, Florida doesn't have the surf culture of California or Hawaii where big...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Medical DailyLSD is responsible for some major changes in consciousness, but what are the neurological processes behind them?
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from MedPage Today.com Latest Headlines(MedPage Today) -- An FDA advisory committee voted overwhelmingly against allowing codeine in medications for children under 18
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Top Health News -- ScienceDailyA researcher describes that the bacterial immune defense system CRISPR-Cas9 is diverse and widespread among bacteria. She shows that the present possibilities offered by this gene editing tool can be expanded by combining natural...
- Overcoming Fear: Drug For Heart Conditions May Help People Exposed To Spiders Get Over ArachnophobiaFriday, December 11, 2015 from Medical DailyResearchers in Amsterdam recently found that giving patients amnestic drugs while triggering memories of their biggest fears may help reduce phobias.
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Health Impact News
Since the MedicalKidnap.com website was started in 2014 as part of the Health Impact News network, we have had more parents from Arizona contact us regarding medical kidnappings than any other state in the U.S. Arizona has the highest... -
Friday, December 11, 2015 from Medical DailyDr. Carlo Oller, an emergency surgeon, shows a video of a patient who had shot himself through the hand with an arrow, and the procedure they went through to remove it.
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Medical DailyCheerleaders sustain injuries that are likely to sideline them for weeks.
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Top Health News -- ScienceDailyA new diagnostic method has been created, based on Birefringence, the ability of substances to change the polarization state of light. With this method, doctors around the world can easily, rapidly and reliably detect malaria, Ebola or...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from POPSUGAR FitnessThe following post was originally featured on Peanut Butter Fingers and written by Julie Fagan , who is part of POPSUGAR Select Fitness . This crock pot sweet potato soup is a savory, comforting soup that is packed with fall flavors and...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from POPSUGAR FitnessThe holiday season facilitates an indulgent environment that doesn't necessarily make health and fitness at the forefront of everyone's minds. While you should totally treat yourself, it's also useful to start thinking about your fitness...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Medical DailyA patient with Wernicke's aphasia demonstrates how this speech impairment can affect our language comprehension but not fluency.
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Saturday, December 12, 2015 from THE MEDICAL NEWSU.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Chairman Elliot F. Kaye and U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23) announced today the awardees of a first-of-its-kind grant program aimed at preventing pool and spa drownings and drain...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Internal Medicine NewsThe use of hormone therapy was associated with a lower urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio and a decreased risk of albuminuria.
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from MedPage Today.com Latest Headlines(MedPage Today) -- Alectinib, an ALK inhibitor, is OK'd as second-line treatment
- No significant differences in recurrence rates among women with DCIS taking anastrozole or tamoxifenSaturday, December 12, 2015 from e! Science News - Health & MedicinePostmenopausal women with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) had similar outcomes with disease recurrence whether they took tamoxifen or the aromatase inhibitor anastrozole for five years after surgery, but women in the two groups had...
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Saturday, December 12, 2015 from MedicineNet Daily NewsTitle: Hoverboard Injuries, Fires on Rise Category: Health News Created: 12/11/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 12/11/2015 12:00:00 AM
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Saturday, December 12, 2015 from MedicineNet Daily NewsTitle: Not Enough Needle Exchange Programs Outside Cities: Study Category: Health News Created: 12/10/2015 12:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 12/11/2015 12:00:00 AM
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from MedPage Today.com Latest Headlines(MedPage Today) -- Question of the Day asks are U.S. clinicians best; is med school a good buy; and do you own a gun
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from POPSUGAR FitnessLet's be real, workouts can get noisy. When you're in need of an early-morning or late-night workout that won't disturb neighbors or wake sleeping family members, here are sweaty and intense options that won't make much noise. This...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Medical DailyHere are the various theories on why we dream.
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Saturday, December 12, 2015 from THE MEDICAL NEWSA study by IRB Barcelona and IDIBAPS reveals a therapeutic target to prevent the development of the many abnormal blood vessels that cause gastrointestinal bleeding—the main complication in cirrhosis.
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Saturday, December 12, 2015 from CBS News - HealthA new study finds high levels of stress may raise the risk of mild cognitive impairment, a condition that's often a precursor to Alzheimer's disease
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine[UN News] More than 50,000 people forced to flee in the wake of attacks on islands of Lake Chad are living in "precarious conditions" in need of food, drinking water, shelter, health care and other services in a situation exacerbated by...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine[Botswana Daily News] Gaborone -The Assistant Minister of Health, Dr Alfred Madigele, says he is aware that Masego, Lapologang and Botswelelo clinics experienced occasional drug shortage due to internal processes between the clinics and...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Reuters: Health News(Reuters Health) - Kids as young as 13 may be inundated with daily ads from the alcohol industry on social media, and while Twitter has an age-gate which blocks direct-to-phone updates for underage users, Instagram does not, according to...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Healthy Living on HuffingtonPost.comRight now is the busiest, craziest time of the year. Making lists and checking them twice, rushing to get ready for a party, agonizing over what to get for that special someone, sending greetings to friends and family -- to say nothing...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Healthy Living on HuffingtonPost.com" I'm grateful we are safe. " This was fifteen-year-old Ian's response when asked to share something for which he was grateful during his family's Thanksgiving meal; a response that left Ian's parents somewhat surprised. Ian was 12 on...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Society: Health | theguardian.comDame Sally Davies says higher education system failing to prepare healthcare workers for reality of violence against women in England Healthcare professionals have been told they are not prepared for the reality of violence against...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine[Namibia Economist] 'Make getting to Zero a personal commitment', these were the words of Markus Lubbe, acting CEO of Namdeb as he encouraged employees who joined the rest of the world to commemorate World Aids Day on 1 December.
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Society: Health | theguardian.comThe risks facing any refugee crossing the Mediterranean are vast; for an unaccompanied minor they are inconceivable. Still, more and more children are being forced to take that risk – and from Sicily to Kent, the reception that awaits...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Health & Science: Science News, Health News, Scientific Developments, Healthcare & Nutrition - The Washington PostR.D. Zimmerman had been to northern Africa and the Caribbean, spent lots of time in Russia, and visited Mexico multiple times. But a couple of weeks after returning home to Minneapolis in April from a visit to Cabo, on the southern tip...
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Saturday, December 12, 2015 from BBC News - HealthThe future for adult social care services in England "looks bleak", the International Longevity Centre warns, despite government attempts to protect budgets.
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Society: Health | theguardian.comHundreds of staff at Royal School for Deaf Children Margate and Westgate college lose jobs as parents express concern for their children Hundreds of people working with deaf children and young adults have lost their jobs following the...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine[News24Wire] Blink. Blink. Blink. His eyes were the only thing that could move as Charles Oppelt lay in pain on the green grass on a sunny Saturday afternoon, waiting for help.
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Society: Health | theguardian.comHealth service figures show several casualty units were shut around the country and no spaces free even before onset of full winter conditions Hospitals have run out of beds, had to temporarily close their A&E unit and been battling...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Addiction Professional MagazineJulio I. Rojas, PhD A visual framework can guide clinical care for the vast number of individuals affected by co-occurring disorders and trauma.
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Health & Science: Science News, Health News, Scientific Developments, Healthcare & Nutrition - The Washington PostIt’s a good time to be an American teenager — but not so much an American adult.Happiness levels are on the rise in adolescents, new research finds, but people older than 30 are becoming less happy over time. Though people used to report...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine[Observer] Abim District Chief Administrative Officer Moses Kaziba Nandhala has brushed off the avalanche of criticism for his threats to suspend two nurses who took FDC presidential candidate Kizza Besigye on a guided tour of the...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine[Key Correspondents] Dr Prosper Chonzi, director of health services, Harare City Council, knows the problem of sexual violence is serious, and that people - especially women and girls - need help.
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Healthy Living on HuffingtonPost.comWhat are the U.N. Climate Chief's biggest concerns gearing up to the creation of the historic climate agreement on Friday? Aside from the challenge of coming up with ambitious yet realistic legally binding guidelines for carbon...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from BBC News - HealthNorthern Ireland's lifetime ban on gay men donating blood should be lifted if a government advisory group says it is safe, the health minister says.
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Society: Health | theguardian.comMany schools have already restricted outdoors activities as record levels of air pollution in the Indian capital are expected to last for months to come Authorities in Delhi are considering shutting schools in the sprawling Indian...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from BBC News - HealthA report warning that obesity is the biggest threat to women's health is "nonsense", a size acceptance campaigner claims.
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from FOXNews.comThere isn't enough evidence yet to say whether routine full-body skin cancer screenings are safe or effective, according to new proposed U.S. guidelines aimed at preventing deaths from these malignancies.
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine[Daily Trust] The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has warned that the effect of the El Nino conditions associated with the current dry season will have impact on food production and health and disaster management.
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine[WCC] "Disability does not mean inability! Human rights for all! Equality and access to good health care! Leave no one behind!" These are among the many slogans that were thrown around at the recent 18th International Conference on AIDS...
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Saturday, December 12, 2015 from CBS News - HealthA study in older adults looks at stress and the development of early memory problems
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Saturday, December 12, 2015 from CBS News - HealthSweet Leaf Tea Company says some customers reported problems
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine[Concord] As 2015 draws to an end, the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Secretariat, in the Office of the Vice President, yesterday held their end of year strategic meeting to reflect successes and challenges in 2014 and 2015 and to discuss...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -Liberia is currently in its 20th day without a new case of the dealy Ebola virus since the November 19 outbreak of virus from a household in Du-Port Road. Recently, the Ministry of Health and partners released...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Society: Health | theguardian.comDo you work in the NHS? Please participate in our survey and tell us about the state of the sector and its workforce January 2015 was a big month for the NHS. Pressure on A&E departments across the country reached critical levels. In...
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Saturday, December 12, 2015 from FOXNews.comWe’re all hearing so much chatter lately around what it means to eat clean, and how to revamp our fridge and pantry to serve our family fresh, whole foods instead of processed, packaged foods.
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Global News : Health
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Healthy Living on HuffingtonPost.comDo you feel like you never have enough time? According to Dr. Kathleen Vohs, 47 percent of Americans say they are starved for time. It's an epidemic she describes as a time famine. Feeling time-starved is linked with stress, insomnia,...
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Saturday, December 12, 2015 from Health & Science: Science News, Health News, Scientific Developments, Healthcare & Nutrition - The Washington PostDespite increased public efforts to combat opioid abuse, the number of deaths from heroin overdoses surged by 28 percent in 2014, and fatal overdoses from prescription painkillers climbed by 16.3 percent, according to federal health...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Healthy Living on HuffingtonPost.comContentment is often talked about elusively, not unlike the moment right before you fall into a deep sleep, or a sudden thrill of excitement and butterflies. Believing it's not something we can cultivate ourselves is exactly why we're...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Reuters: Health News(Reuters Health) - For health care providers, earlier influenza vaccination is linked to fewer flu symptoms and less time away from work, a Mexican study suggests.
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Healthy Living on HuffingtonPost.comChinese mixed martial arts fighter Yang Jian Bing died on Friday at the age of 21 due to heart failure resulting from an attempt to cut weight for an upcoming bout. Bing was scheduled to compete in Friday's ONE Championship 35 in...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Healthy Living on HuffingtonPost.comThis time of the year, I am always moved by the humanitarian spirit, witnessing the rush by so many people to come to the aid of individuals, families and communities. It warms my heart. From the perspective of my work to prevent harm, I...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Healthy Living on HuffingtonPost.comAlcohol ads urging people to “drink responsibly” don’t seem to be working. Though drunk driving has decreased, binge drinking and underage drinking are on the rise. So the world’s biggest brewer is trying...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Healthy Living on HuffingtonPost.comThis time of year there is a lot to communicate about and lots of places where we can communicate. Many of us are attending parties at work and events with friends and relatives. We are also out planning all that is involved in the...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Global News : Health
Twenty-one percent of American children and teenagers have some form of abnormal blood cholesterol reading that leaves them at heightened risk for heart disease and stroke. -
Friday, December 11, 2015 from Healthy Living on HuffingtonPost.comThis is the season for sweet surprises, special treats and indulgent bliss. But the amounts of added sugar year-round, on ordinary days, is staggering. Most of this added sugar is in processed foods, as food makers have learned long ago...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Healthy Living on HuffingtonPost.comThe Core is a word that is loosely used all the time in the fitness community. If you go to the gym, you will rarely hear the word abdominal bracing being used. However, in order to successfully incorporate your core muscles into an...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Reuters: Health NewsPARIS (Reuters) - France detected a case of highly pathogenic bird flu in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques region on Friday, taking to five the number of regions affected by the outbreak in the country's southwest.
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from Healthy Living on HuffingtonPost.comColleen Saidman Yee is an internationally renowned yoga teacher, who teaches yoga workshops worldwide with her husband, Rodney Yee. Before coming to yoga, Colleen had a varied career: She was a cover girl, a student of shiatsu, and she...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from FOXNews.comA 14-year-old boy with dreams of becoming a U.S. Navy SEAL received a surprise visit from veterans as he underwent treatment in North Carolina for his second battle with leukemia.
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine[Monitor] Kampala -Uganda will be one of the countries to benefit from the new formulation of child-friendly tuberculosis (TB) medicines to be released in 2016.
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine[FrontPageAfrica] Gbarnga, Bong County -Joshua Bedell wept intensely, his hands clasped over his head as he watched his dying wife on a blood-stained stretcher shortly after being delivered of a baby. Clutching the metal props, the new...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine[SciDev.Net] Human Rights Day seems an apt time to reflect on a year of SciDev.Net analysis articles. Four of the five topics we cover - disability, gender, migration and (chronic) poverty - put the spotlight on those whose rights are...
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Friday, December 11, 2015 from AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine[Botswana Daily News] Gaborone -Assistant Minister of Health, Dr Alfred Madigele, says the ministry is not aware of any patients from health posts who were referred to Scottish Livingstone, but were not escorted by a nurse. Answering a...
